Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Communities around the country are experiencing challenges in preventing substance use. For some ...

Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

When Poudre Valley Health System, based in Fort Collins, Colo., started using bedside medication ...

Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...

The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...